Xia Wang is an associate professor at the Arizona State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Professor Wang received her Ph.D. from Florida State University in 2008. She is involved in studies of race and ethnicity and their effects on crime and criminal justice, and she is also interested in applying various quantitative methods to test and extend criminological theories. Her work has appeared in Criminology, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.